Tomb of Giacomo II da Carrara
by SANTI, Andriolo di Pagano de', Stone
Giacomo II da Carrara (sometimes Jacopo, died 1350) was an Italian politician, lord of Padua from 1345 to his death in 1350. He was stabbed to death by Guglielmo da Carrara, illegitimate son of Giacomo I.
Giacomo was buried in the church of Sant’Agostino in Padua in a sumptuous funeral monument, where an inscription was placed in elegiac Latin verses composed by his friend Francesco Petrarca. In 1820, when the church was demolished, the monument was moved to the Church of the Eremitani, where it is still located.
The picture shows the tomb of Giacomo II da Carrara with the epitaph of Petrarca.